Website Audit · Real Estate · London

Website Audit for Real Estate in London

London property moves fast and the search results move faster. You're paying some of the highest GBP click costs in the world, competing with national portals and a hundred local agents — and your own site might be quietly working against you. Start with a free instant scan: drop in your URL and get a score out of 100 plus your top issues in seconds. No signup, no call, no catch.

✓ Free instant scan — score + top issues✓ No signup✓ Built for London property sites
Why this page exists

London is the hardest property market on earth to be invisible in.

It's the financial capital of the UK and Europe, which means brutal competition and some of the steepest pay-per-click costs anywhere — every wasted click on a slow or duplicated page is real money gone. Meanwhile buyers have changed: a young professional flat-hunting in Hackney now asks ChatGPT or Perplexity "best two-bed near the Overground in East London" before they ever touch Rightmove. If your site can't be read cleanly by Google and by those answer engines, you're not just ranking lower — you're not in the conversation at all.

The good news is that most of what holds a London estate-agent site back is structural and fixable. The free instant scan reads your live site the way a search crawler does and hands you a score and your most urgent issues in seconds — so you can see, before spending a penny, whether there's something worth fixing.

The niche pain

Where real estate sites in London quietly leak

These aren't generic "improve your SEO" notes. They're the specific failure patterns I see again and again on property sites pulling stock from IDX and portal feeds — the ones that cost London agents enquiries without anyone noticing.

  • Photo-stuffed gallery pages that crawl on mobile. London buyers browse on the Tube and on the bus. A listing with twenty unsized, uncompressed images blows past a 2.5s Largest Contentful Paint, shifts the layout as it loads, and fails Core Web Vitals — so Google quietly demotes the very page you want found.
  • IDX / MLS feeds spawning duplicate URLs. The same flat appears at a filtered URL, a paginated URL, and a search-parameter URL — with no canonical tag telling Google which one is real. Your ranking gets split three ways and none of them win.
  • Stale sold and let-agreed listings left indexed. Buyers land on properties that went months ago, bounce straight off, and your live stock loses ground in a market where freshness is everything.
  • Weak local SEO and inconsistent NAP. London is dozens of micro-markets — Clapham, Shoreditch, Richmond, Canary Wharf. Mismatched name/address/phone details and missing area pages mean Google can't tell which neighbourhoods you actually cover.
  • Missing listing and Place schema. Without structured data describing each property and your office, you're shut out of rich results and the AI answers buyers now lean on first.
  • No llms.txt — invisible to answer engines. ChatGPT and Perplexity have no map of your areas or stock, so when someone asks for an agent in your patch, you're simply not offered.
Step one — free

What the free scan shows you

In seconds, on your live site, no signup: a clear score out of 100 and your top issues spelled out in plain English — the worst leaks first. It's the gut-check, not the full report. Enough to know whether your London property site is fighting for you or against you.

Step two — also free

Try the 12 free tools too

Beyond the scan, there's a small toolbox of free, single-purpose checks — point any of them at a problem you suspect. Want to know if your listing pages feel fast and stable on mobile? Run the Core Web Vitals checker. Wondering whether ChatGPT and Perplexity can even read your site? The AI crawler checker tells you in one click. No login, no limit.

When you want the whole picture

The deep audit — 149 checks across 15 categories

The free scan tells you that something's leaking. The deep audit tells you exactly what, where, and what it's costing — a human-reviewed report running 149 checks across 15 categories, every finding ranked by impact, each with the specific fix in plain English. For a London property site that's tuned for IDX duplicates, listing schema, mobile gallery performance, stale-listing handling, and AI-readability all at once.

$297 USD · one-time, per site

Full report, prioritised fix list, delivered within 3 business days. The fee credits toward any fix work — so the audit pays for itself if you have me rebuild the structure.

A few of the 15 categories
Search & indexingAI & answer readinessPerformance & deliverySite architecture & crawlLocal SEOStructured data & schemaConversion & UXAccessibility (WCAG)
After the audit

Fix it once — then keep it watched.

A property site never sits still: stock turns over daily, a feed update breaks a template, a sold listing slips back into the index. Audit clients can stay in a light monitoring membership — monthly re-scans that catch new leaks early and uptime monitoring that flags the moment a page goes down. No pressure; it's there when you want it, and we can talk it through once your report lands.

Who's behind it

The tools find the problem. I rebuild the structure.

Scanners are good at pointing at what's wrong. They can't re-architect an IDX integration, restructure your area pages, or rebuild a listing template so it passes Core Web Vitals and feeds clean schema to Google and AI. When you need that — a Technical Web Architect to actually fix the structure, not just name it — that's me, Jerome Bilaos.

I'm based in the Philippines and serve London property businesses remotely. The time difference is a feature, not a bug: PH runs roughly 8 hours ahead of GMT, so I work through your night and async fixes land by your morning. No fabricated local office, no call-centre — just real, contactable work. See the portfolio, or book a call to talk through your site.

FAQ

London property sites — questions, answered.

Why do London property sites duplicate so many URLs?

Most London agents pull listings from an IDX or portal feed, which often generates the same property at several addresses — filtered, paginated and search-parameter versions. Without a canonical tag, Google splits the ranking between them, so none of them win. The free scan flags whether your listing URLs are competing with each other.

My listing pages are full of photos and feel slow on mobile. Does that hurt rankings?

Yes. London buyers browse on the train and on their phones, and photo-heavy galleries with unsized, uncompressed images tank Largest Contentful Paint and cause layout shift. Failing Core Web Vitals quietly lowers your rankings in one of the most competitive property markets in the world. The scan reads your live listing pages on mobile and shows the offenders.

What happens to sold or let listings on my site?

Many London sites leave sold and let-agreed properties indexed long after they're gone. Buyers land on dead listings, bounce, and your live stock loses visibility. The audit checks whether stale listings are still indexed and how they should be redirected or removed.

Can AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity recommend my agency?

London buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT or Perplexity before opening Rightmove. If your site has no llms.txt and weak structured data, answer engines can't read what areas you cover or what you list — so you're left out of the answer. The deep audit assesses your AI-readability directly.

Is local SEO worth it when I'm competing across all of London?

Especially then. London is dozens of micro-markets — Clapham, Shoreditch, Richmond — and buyers search by area. Inconsistent NAP details, missing LocalBusiness and Place schema, and thin area pages mean Google can't tell which neighbourhoods you actually serve. The audit maps where your local signals leak.

How much does this cost and where are you based?

The instant scan is free with no signup. The full 149-check deep audit is a one-time USD $297 per site. I'm Jerome Bilaos, a Technical Web Architect based in the Philippines, serving London property businesses remotely — the GMT time difference means I work through your night, so fixes land by your morning.